All Quiet on the Western Front

“The ending change was stupid though because the ending of the book is with Paul dead and the leaders, big picture, saying it's all Quiet on the Western Front, ignoring an individual's death. Which is exactly what the movie embraces right up until the end. But the movie flips again at the end so the leaders have negotiated peace but one individual is killed in a final, unsanctioned offensive, in great detail. Suddenly, the movie is concerned about Paul the individual again... absolutely negating the title of the book.”

DoomGoober▲ 1about 75–100% inread it ↗

“I didn’t think I would like the film and ultimately did. While not as ‘true’ to the source material or themes, it does a masterful job showing and emotionally depicting through sound and sights the scale of war of that era. It’s lighter on emotional elements and depth of humanity than many war films, and that is I feel the point of the original story. But if you’re going to remake it, and do it from a relatively retrospective ‘pro-war but remove the varnish and run the tape’ perspective, then I ”

robertbeets▲ 4read it ↗

“That bugged me so much. I need to forget the book before I can give it another try. Hard to forget the book though.”

voivod1989▲ 2read it ↗

“It is a good war movie, just not a good adaptation of the book.”

xiaorobear▲ 2read it ↗

“it was very boring for long periods of time”

DukeJonabout 0–100% inread it ↗

“the second half just seemed like a blatant gore fest”

RefinedInsightsabout 50–100% inread it ↗

“The seeming muteness and numbness built in Paul by the end of the film is brutalizing for the audience.”

bridgerjones_38about 75–100% inread it ↗

“starts with a great thriller and gruesome scenes”

M7AMDabout 0–15% inread it ↗

“hampered by its drawn-out length, the plot dragging in spots”

Ahmadabout 0–100% inread it ↗

“That optimism is soon destroyed in the first minutes of reaching the battlefields as they are hit with mortar strikes that kill countless numbers of their comrades.”

Nathanabout 0–15% inread it ↗

“It is very ironic from the beginning of the film, and you see to what degree the name of the movie doesn't at all indicate that things are calm between the Germans and the French, but it is important that through the events of the film we will live the quiet and deadly events of the soldiers on the Western Front between the Germans and”

Andre Wilfred Sandersabout 0–15% inread it ↗

“All Quiet on the Western Front is as beautiful and poetic as it is brutal and blunt. Historically accurate, emotional, and raw, this film is easily the best war drama to arrive since "Saving Private Ryan". Although available in English over dub, watching the film in the native German language with English subtitles is the way to go. Somehow, hearing German commanding officers shouting in English doesn't have the same dramatic effect. The cinematography is amazing. Go watch it.”